File Sharers Beware: LimeWire Shut Down By Court Order
Not that we all didn’t see this coming from a mile away, but a court order has finally lay waste to the file-sharing software known as LimeWire. Long used by millions worldwide to download and share music and videos, the software violates copyright laws and did little or nothing to stop the distribution of copyright-protected files.
LimeWire was used extensively over the past few years to make virtually any song or film available, with many albums and movies available before their release date. After seeing what happened to Napster (a $26 million settlement paid to record companies), you’d think the guys behind LimeWire would get the picture.
Today, should you attempt to use the software, here’s what you’ll see.
Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan said LimeWire’s proprietors “intentionally encouraged direct infringement” and ruled they should no longer allow or support “the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality, and/or all functionality” of its software.
This comes as quite a victory to those who actually own rights to the widely distributed copyrighted material. Film studios and record labels were left virtually powerless in this fight for quite some time, thus resorting to fruitless lawsuits against individual users of file-sharing, which didn’t seem to have much success as a deterrent. Ad campaigns were launched, preaching how stealing is wrong, even when it comes to movies. If these ads served any purpose, it was inspiring great parodies such as this one.
In the long battle for intellectual property rights, there seems to be one more win for the anti-piracy movement. For LimeWire, however, the losses are just beginning. In January of next year, its owners will stand trial to determine just how much in damages they owe to the record companies. Look for another substantive pay out in hopes of deterring other programmers from developing such a tool.
I have to wonder if this latest legal action will actually change anything. Much like the responses people gave to this post, it seems people will find a way to get the music they want for free, regardless. This court order only ensures LimeWire isn’t no longer one of those sources.
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well this is bullshit. they honestly think shutting down one peer to peer sharing and programmes. theres thousand of other ones. the court ssure are doing what they can. but watch tomorrow a new one will be up. they’re wasting they’re time.
Gentlemen: Many use “Limewire” more because of “old song” availability than the cost savings. I personally have tried “pay for music” sites. I have explored others. I was unable to find even a fraction of the variety of older tunes that I was looking for. Truthfully, I TRIED to pay for what music I wanted. I couldn’t find it. Limewire provided 95%+ of what I wanted to find. Basic concept:
“give the consumer what he wants”; Limewire DID !!!
jesus christ, limewire gave me the music i couldnt find. why can’t music be free.
IT STILL WORKS FINE AND ALWAYS WILL
haha, i know!! dang just leave limewire alone, by the way i can still use it. LIMEWIRE YOUR THE SHIT
I get stealing music is wrong, but so is charging $1.29 per song. I’m sorry, but being a broke college student, I’m not going to pay that ridiculous price especially when I can get what I want for free. The music industry takes complete advantage of consumers. Like others have said, people will find a way to keep downloading free music. Maybe if music stores, such as iTunes, would stop ripping consumers off and actually offer the music we want to listen to, then maybe we wouldn’t turn to illegal alternatives. Just sayin’
This doesn’t change anything I’ll just frostwire instead.
Shutting down limewire will not stop one thing it only puts the normal users of the internet to find another source to download movies,tv series,programming files,& music. which is not that difficult considering you cant stop people from sharing information that is encripted or not its as easy as typing what you want in google & downloading a torrent
I’m sorry, but everyone is right… shutting down limewire isn’t helping the economy its making it worse. When limewire was active lets just say hypothetically, 85% of americans used it instead of payig for music. who says they are going to pay for music now?
And Agreed with above^
Give the consumr what he/she wants.
They did do that.
Now I understand maybe limewire having to pay the record companies and shit to be aloud to distribute music.
But majority of people using limewire are teens who dont have any $$$ to their name.
And yes there are plenty of more sources.
“Piracy” if you wanna use sucha negative term, is goin to exist for the rest of time. The crackpot idiots who we have in politic positions can’t do shit about it, cause if they focus too much on such a ridicilous term or subject, thats making the country more vulnerable and distracted for greater threats.
Like Im not alimewire fan, cause a lot of shit on their gave me viruses, but there are lots of other sources that actually give the consumer what they want ina nice clean safe way, and trying to get rid of that is just making everyone hate our government even more then we already do.
America can suck my balls and you have the ggovernment to thank for that.
Record companies and music sites that charge to download music at the outragious prices they charge have driven people to seek out the free P2P sites. (I guess they need to pay for their limos and all the other anemities that they expect to have) If I could get music for like maybe 6-8 songs for a buck I might buy them. Consider too that I could not find a lot of the music I wanted at iTunes for example. Others claim the same. We will find what we want for the right price, FREE!
WHY?
This is sooooooo creep! Why does it matter. The artist are already getting enough money already. What about us broke people who cant afford to get all the new songs that come out for these crazy prices. F this. This aint right, cuz I aint goin to be buying no music or their CDs if it aint good. Most artists only make two good songs a CD so they can forget that. Limewire wasn’t causing no trouble or putting no body in harms way so THE GOVERNMENT NEED TO FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO DO LIKE CREATE MORE **** JOBS AND LOWER CRIME OR SOMETHING. SOMETHING THAT IS NOT AS MINOR AS THIS ****.
i was very sorry to see limewire closed down i didnt use it much but if i wanted a rare record i could usually find it on limewire i do know that there is other sites that download music but it is complicated and sometimes dont work or wont even download come back limewire we all miss you
america, land of the free indeed.
i would pay for music if was at a reasonable price but $1.50 to $2.00 PER song is way too high. plus itunes can suck my balls for all the crappy “music” they sell and it’s retard to shut down something everyone loves. it’d be like shuting down tv. the goverment just wants all that money for nothing and i mean seriuosly this county makes it own money why can’t they just print more and then everone can be rich and then there’d be no more poor people or homeless problem.
Seriously this isnt helping shit i will keep on downloading,
and i will keep downloading a lot more just to piss you people off.
as long as people keep me charging $2.00 a song
i still keep downloading and i think like 99.99999% is with me. so dont bother shutting it down.
It is what it is. Limewire gave the american public what they wanted. I do agree that the record labels don’t get what they were hoping for, but here’s a little something to ponder…say Johnny high school was at his buddys house. He hears a guitar solo on his buds favorite radio station that blows him away. He remembers the band and buys $5,000 worth of albums, memorabilia, show tickets, and what not. However, Johnny downloads his favorite song from a network and gets busted. Now, according to the kangaroo courts, he owes $150,000 to the record label of his favorite band. This is a true story…we are a democracy if we remember correctly, and if our memory serves right, the majority rules. And lets hear what the bands have to say about it, and not just the washed up assholes who are pouting about their private jet when the rest of us are losing our homes. Gotta give it to SOAD with “Steal This Album!”…way to go! In all honesty, I DO make music and I would be happy to have someone listening, paid for or not.
hey in response to antonio A.
dude if that would fix it it would
but that would just bring down the value of the american dollar.
so then it would cost even more dollars yet the ratio of cost to income would be the same. learn some basic economics dude
its pretty obvious there arent many people out here that remember actually buying albums, cassettes CD’s up until the 90′s…MUSIC WAS NEVER FREE…IN FACT NOTHING WAS FREE AND WHY YOU BLAME THE GOVERNMENT FOR THAT IS LUDICROUS…although I was a Napster guy way back when…please dont use the excuse you DONT HAVE MONEY…or I’M A POOR COLLEGE STUDENT…or A BUCK FOR A SONG IS TOO EXPENSIVE…GUESS WHAT LIFE ISNT FREE AND NO ONE OWES YOU ANYTHING…all the Internet and P2P has done is re focused bands into more touring and selling more merch to make up the difference…BEEN TO A SHOW LATELY? HUGE DOLLARS…want music? GET A JOB…but that might be difficult if you speak English or claim to understand Economics or Politics like some foul mouth “experts” here…Dont like it here? Move…and see how much music you’ll get for free
The court is wrong..its not stealing when people share music… the web is used for free enterprise… for everthing else..come on now..
Well, I will certainly say this. Please, oh please do exactly that.
All of you people who cannot speak english, LEARN IT! If you don’t like it here, GET THE HELL OUT! You want a family? GET A JOB AND SUPPORT THEM! DON’T ABUSE OUR WELFARE! Oh yeah, and music that’s another issue. The internet is awasome.
Well its certainly an interesting argument. I have actually resorted to not listening to music at the moment. While I agree with everyone here and am thoroughly annoyed that they shut down limewire, RJ presents a good point that music hasn’t always been free and so readily available. B****ings not going to do any good and if you can’t afford something then you wait until you can.
If you can’t afford a phone you don’t go steal it, you buddy up with a rich friend and get them to give you one of there phones second hand.
Just find a friend with that new CD you want and load it onto your computer.
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Folks what we need is a smart attorney to Represent the P2P industry, The Music I download I have already purchased over the years, be it the big plastic albums or 45s,8trak tapes,cassette, I have already paid for these, the only problem is these things wear out or break, now why does the music industry have the right to charge me again for music I already paid for? wants you purchase this you should own it permanently,and the same should be for VHS,DVD Movies or even software.
Even Sonny Bono rest his soul,had it right when he won in court that music writers and artist should own the rights to their music permanently,we the people should have the same right after purchasing it!
Who do they think they are the Government? Exactly the new Mafia The US Government!
Its all about illuminati. all they need is money for their evil plan to bring devil on earth through cross dimensional by writing songs for singers when singers sang songs they got money by selling songs making it 50-50 now you got understand why they want to shutdown limewire because of it. No more sharing no more tension about leakage of their data And now much more money.
LIMEWIRE IS THE BEST EVER AND IT SHOULD BE BACK.
FOR THOSE WHO BOUGHT LIMEWIRE AND LOVE LIMEWIRE SHOULD COME TO STREETS WITH SLOGANS TO OPEN LIMEWIRE BACK AND NOT TO RETURN UNTIL IT IS BACK
I agree with RJ on most of his points. Except music was free in Europe a long time a go, if you look at history. Now like everything else in America it is for profit. Sure the music companies are making it expensive for downloading music, but that is just business trying to survive this technological world. I would say music should cost $0.50 per song. It should not cost more then $1.00. But life is not fair, and it is constitutional for the businesses to charge what ever they would like for their product.
Salary caps for sports stars, musicians and actors. The mediocre get paid minimum wage and the top performers get paid at the top of the scale.
Overpaying people for playing sport (fun & games), acting (playing dress-ups and imagination) or music just leads to a culture of over-inflated importance and bad behaviour.
Yes, a user-pays system is needed to recoup production of music and movies, special effects, costume and uniforms, instruments and travel for performances, but add that to the salary cap and that’s where profiteering should end. When it doesn’t it breeds greed and selfishness.
There has always been a way to get music for free what are u talking about RJ? YES a lot of people did buy it back in the day and fewer people buy it now because of technology, the ability to burn a CD. But to indulge your “opinion” I guess you don’t know anything about dubbing a tape back in the day? Recording music off the radio back in the day? I’m almost sure there was a way to dubb a record too but that’s a lil before my time forgive me for my youth. Was that not “for free”? It’s not about people not stealing music, its just hard to try and have authority on a sound when if there is a way to duplicate it…that’s what people will do! Every person isn’t going to go buy music and make artist rich when the RECORD COMPANY should be doing that not the common man!
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I have not paid for music since the first case of I’ll sue you if you record my music came out.They know they used to record tapes on the radio when they was younger.Sure I dont “steal” it .I dont want it.If I want to hear a song Ill turn on the radio and hear it for free.
Have not been to a concert since neither.I refuse to give a penny to greedy people.If I can help it.
well what about the people that paided for the service because i wanted the old music that you can not find on the record sites….please, this is crap and they know it! what happens if they move out of the country and opens back up? HA! that’s what they need to do!
same shit
the suits just dont get it………
even though limewire is shut down there will always be a way to download music and send it to itunes. i mean shit most people can do it with youtube any site really. you can never stop it if i like 1 song on a 20$ ALBUM (the price of the damn cd) im not going to pay 20 bucks for one song yes i can under stand if every one had to pay for limewire monthly then they pay the record companys its a vicious circle but shutting it down was just uncalled for
really tho what is the point in charging so much for a song? no one in there right mind would fork out all that money. new songs come in old ones are forgotten. its wastefull to spend so much on something that is constantly changing each day. songs should be ONE CENT! if they were one cent each im sure we would all be in, and millions of people would purchase thousands of songs alone.. prices being cheaper mean more consumers want wat is offered. high prices just earn complaints! quit ripping us off!
Limewire is a P2P network tool. Like any tool it can be used in a variety of ways. Just like guns can. I’m pretty sure you still get those in America and they have been known to kill people. Are we gonna ban all FTP clients because they can connect to and FTP server with mp3′s on it? Seriously….
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